Definition of Azalea

1.n. A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

Definition of Azalea

1. Noun. A plant of the obsolete genus ''Azalea''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Azalea

1. a flowering shrub [n -S]

Medical Definition of Azalea

1. A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.
Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Dry, so called because supposed to grow best in dry ground.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

Azalea Pictures

Click the following link to bring up a new window with an automated collection of images related to the term: Azalea Images

Literary usage of Azalea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)"At first sight one might fancy it a superior form of the ordinary but choice and
lovely hybrid American or Ghent azalea, which, in a general way, ..."

2.Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1846)"azalea OBTUSA.* Sent to the Garden by Mr. R. Fortune, July 26, 1844, as an azalea,
from Shanghai, with fine deep red flowers. This charming shrub may be ..."

3.Poems by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)"VII THE azalea. There, where the sun shines first Against our room, She train'd
the gold azalea, whose perfume She, Spring-like, from her breathing grace ..."

4.Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1881)"... That the Prospective Prize of $40 for the best Seedling, Flowering or Foliage
plant (other than Rose, Camellia, azalea Indica, Tree Paeony, ..."